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单词 country bookie
释义

country bookien.

Brit. /ˈkʌntrɪ ˌbʊki/, U.S. /ˌkəntri ˈbʊki/, Caribbean English /ˈkʌntri ˌbʊki/
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: buckie n.
Etymology: Probably < country n. + a variant or alteration of buckie n. (compare buckie n. 2); compare country buckie , which is attested in Scotland in the 19th cent. (compare quot. 1887) and may have been brought to Trinidad by Scottish settlers.
Caribbean.
An unsophisticated person from the country. Cf. country bumpkin n. at country n. and adj. Compounds 4.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun]
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1887 R. L. Stevenson Underwoods ii. viii. 103 Life a rough an' land'art play For country buckies.]
1904 Penny Cuts (Trinidad) 24 Sept. Lizzy say ah is ah country bookie, an ah grow up in a cane piece.
1958 S. Selvon Turn again Tiger iv. 102 Don't play country-bookie all your life.
1982 M. Matura Meetings 57 We do' know if is just dem Country people trying a ting on we, dey smart yer know, yer car beat a Country Bookie fer smartness although dey look simple.
2000 tr. R. Philcox in M. Condé Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? (2004) iii. 146 Too many people saw him as a poor-white country bookie, barely capable of growing sugarcane.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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